CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23515, 1 June 1938, Page 7

CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION

BAND TO BE IMPORTED DUNEDIN EXAMPLE FOLLOWED (Peb United Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 31. One of the famous English regimental bands will probably be brought out from England to provide music at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition next year. The management of the exhibition expects a cablegram from London shortly to say that arrangements have been completed for securing the services of one of the best military bands in the world, but which it is has not yet been divulged. This proposal follows the example set at the Dunedin and South Seas Exhibition, when the band of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was brought from Home. It is understood that the negotiations have been successful. The cost of obtaining the services of such a band and defraying its expenses will probably run into thousands of pounds. The band is, however, likely to be one of the principal attractions of the exhibition and, afterwards, it will probably be sent on tour throughout the Dominion. Little of the expenditure will be directly regained as, expect perhaps in the case of special concerts, most of the playing will be done in the open air. SEASON TICKETS ISSUED. EXTENSIVE PRECAUTIONS ARRANGEMENTS FOR ADMISSION (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 21. Arrangements for the purchase in advance by instalments of season tickets to admit the holder to the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition throughout the six months when it is open have been formulated by the directors of the Exhibition. Leading business firms and Government departments have been approached to co-operate in enabling their employees to purchase tickets. The season tickets will cost 30s, and will entitle the holder to admission whenever and as often as he pleases while the Exhibition is open. That period will include approximately 150 working days. Agents are to be nominated in the offices of the business houses co-operating in the scheme to receive regular instalments of 6d or so a week from the employees to enable even the recipients of small salaries to obtain season tickets. The tickets will be made out in the name of the holder, and will not be transferable. They will carry the signature of the holder and, if his identity is challenged on entering the Exhibition, he will be asked to sign a register, which can be compared with the signature on the card. For the convenience of season ticket holders, special turnstiles will be provided, and they will not have to queue up with those seeking cash admission at the gates. There will be no presales of tickets to the Exhibition other than of season tickets, and admission will be by cash at the gates. It has been fgund in other

parts of the world that this is the most expeditious and convenient method of handling large crowds, and that it most nearly eliminates “gate-crashing.” Strip tickets presold in large numbers are often copied or forged, whereas the only possible danger in the cash turnstile system is that if the man at the gate is not reliable he may slip two through the turnstile at a time and pocket the extra shilling. This is a slight risk at the best, and is easily obviated by supervision. Change boxes will be provided for visitors to avoid delays at the turnstiles and prolonged waiting in queues, QUEEN AS PATRONESS COMPREHENSIVE WOMEN’S SECTION (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 31. Her Majesty the Queen has consented to be a royal patroness of the Women’s Section of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, according to advice received to-day by the exhibition secrefary, Colonel H. F. Avery, from the Governor-General (Viscount Galway). Lady Galway is to be patroness of the Women’s Section, which will be an important one. Representative committees have been formed to arrange exhibits of fine arts, handicrafts, and industrial products and to organise demonstrations and lectures from professional Women on a large variety of subjects. The fine arts division will include architecture, drawing and painting, etchings and engravings, miniatures, modelling and statuary, and photography, all of course, the work of women artists. There will be exhibits- of needlework, bookbinding, and leather work, handicraft in copper and brass, jewellery and enamelling, wood carving and inlaying, illuminating, pottery and stained glass, weaving and spinning, and designs for fabrics and textiles. Toymaking will be an interesting exhibit of feminine handiwork. Cookery, laundry, and other branches of home science nursing and first aid and child welfare will also be sections of wide interest. There will be a special section for the country woman. The course of lectures and demonstrations will cover medicine, science, music, drama, literature, law, accountancy and insurance, sociology and psychology, electricity, gardening, and bee-keeping. The Women’s Section will, in fact, cover practically every aspect of women’s life in this Dominion. Space has been allotted to the New Zealand Women’s Institutes and the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union.